Sentences with phrase «wood fuel as»

Around 95 % of Ugandan households use wood fuel as a primary energy source for cooking.

Five of the six families involved in the pilot project received a multi-fuel burning stove, with waste wood fuel as the primary heat source.

Not exact matches

What's left — paper, plastic, fabric, and wood — will serve as the raw ingredients for its bio jet fuel.

And when you consider smoking foods, think of the wood as a spice to add flavor instead of just being a fuel.

Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Even in the Early Days of epolitics.com, back when we powered the servers with wood, coal and fuel - grade mummies, plenty of people were already predicting the demise of email as a marketing / communications tool.

She said: «Using wood as a fuel has saved us money.

But because wood burning is seen as outdated and environmentally unfriendly, governments have tried to persuade their citizens to use other fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and electricity.

This research gap will not be filled as long as wood - fuel use remains ignored because the assumption is being made that a 21st - century economy must move up the energy ladder, the researchers concluded.

But by 1900, production had reached 60 million barrels annually as world markets replaced wood and whale oil with petroleum and coal as the fuels of choice.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

LIMING, CHINA — Fourteen - year - old Feng Yu's parents used to have to carry as much as 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of wood daily to fuel the cooking stove in their kitchen.

By the mid-1800s, coal gas and solid coke had replaced candles, animal oils, and wood as the most important sources of light, heat, and cooking fuel in many European and American cities.

The CHP plant will use biomass, such as wood, for fuel.

That's because engineers must remove one of wood's key components, known as lignin, to get to the sugary cellulose that's used for fuels.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

Nearly three billion people still rely on solid fuels such as wood and dung.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

Across cultures, countries and eras, people have built fires by piling wood or other fuel in pyramid - or cone - shaped structures that are about as tall as they are wide at the base, Bejan says.

These include a cleaning solvent called 1 - bromopropane, a wood preservative mixture known as pentachlorophenol and cumene, which can be found in fuel products and even tobacco smoke.

This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

Very useful as a substitute for wood fuel in underdeveloped countries.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

Fortunately for the case of using wood for cooking many remote villages are benefitting from solar cooking ovens to reduce reliance on wood as a fuel source.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

In low and middle - income countries, solid fuels such as dung, charcoal or wood are used for cooking and are common in many households.

BY Ron KotrbaCanada's wood pellet industry stands patiently ready to deliver domestic supply as a federal Clean Fuel Standard and complementary support mechanisms develop.

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have figured out a way to successfully convert a common wood byproduct into hydrocarbon molecules that could be used as jet fuel.

At this point, charcoal can be used as fuel and burns cleaner and hotter than wood.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

You are going to need fuel in the form of wood to keep that ember glowing for as long as possible.

It is a set - up as old as time, but this chilling, frequently terrifying work of horror manages to find fresh nightmare fuel in dark woods and incantations muttered in the moonlight.

Originally ordered by Air Force Captain, Ed Hartenberger, from Japanese dealer, Mitsawa Motors in December of 1958 in Ruby Red, with notable Carrera options, such as 400 mm wood - rimmed steering wheel, GT 80 liter fuel tank, GT brakes, and the all new plain bearing 692/2 1600 engine.

The women entrepreneurs of wPOWER, as with the women tree - planters of the GBM networks and millions of others like them, know all too well the consequences of very non-metaphorical forest fires: drought, desertification, hunger, and water and fuel - wood scarcity.

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

Modern fuels, such as propane and natural gas replace wood for heating and cooking.

But the reverse may be true: wind energy and the use of wood as fuel are in fact much older, and were largely abandoned by today's politician's wiser predecessors.

Plus, 45 % of the world's wood is used as fuel — which is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

But, now, the forests are shrinking and degrading — mainly due to overharvesting wood for fuel, as well as converting forests to agricultural land to meet the demands of an increasing population in the DRC's capital.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

And the pollution now experienced every day by billions who do not have the wealth of Americans and Europeans includes cooking in a mud hut using wood and dung as fuel when they can not afford a chimney.

Other bioenergy fuels such as wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel have their own distinct lifecycle fuel inputs and carbon emissions, raising the thorny issue of assessing and taxing their lifecycle carbon emissions.

Burning biomass, whether directly as wood or in the form of ethanol or biodiesel, emits carbon dioxide, just like burning fossil fuels.

The poorest — the 1.3 billion in developing countries who depend on wood and dried dung as primary cooking and heating fuels, smoke from which kills 4 million and temporarily debilitates hundreds of millions every year — will be condemned to more generations of poverty and its deadly consequences.

The energy poverty numbers are as staggering as they are heartbreaking — 1.3 billion people lacking electricity, and 2.7 billion people using wood, charcoal, or dung for cooking fuel.